Gossip, back-stabbing. High turnover. Management doesn't care. They place people in management roles based solely on a friendship. Experience is not needed if you have a friend in a higher position. Lazy employees, no real idea of processes & procedures. Benefits are not good anymore. Raises are a joke!

Horrible Management. Management likes to babysit you all day everyday (micromanaging). Not enough work to fill a whole day. Complaints about not using your time off when you happened to sit in 2 hours of traffic in the morning on 78. No room to grow, no promotions. Constant lay-offs when work dries up, then will bring in consultants (ex-employees) at outrageous costs when current employees are lucky to get a 2% raise each year.

1. If any other engineering firms rejects you and you need a job fast.2. If you have a lack of integrity and pride in your work.3. If you're incompetent and looking to just hide in your cube for a paycheck.4. If you're OK with HR and Senior Management hiring grossly incompetent people because they're all friends.5. If you're OK with constant promises, but no follow up or action taken on any reasonable request.

Cons

1. Obvious glass ceilings2. HR has been caught red-handed multiple times trying to perform illegal actions and other unethical behavior against employee records upon departure.3. If you're an engineer and you're a contractor; prepare to be blamed for the failures of the seniors there. If you're in general operations, prepare to have a severe lack of budget (except for anything related to Safety that they call HS&E) and plenty of blame to go around.4. Management and senior management across multiple departments try to hide incompetency and failures by keeping people "quiet" without reporting to their UK corporate HQ.5. No one will accept responsibility in any form that can be used as evidence (emails, recordings, or any official forms).

Flexible working in the true sense, good salary compared to others in the reading area. Real opportunities to work oversea on good packages.

Cons

No expectation to high achieve, full of whole family units, husbands wife's and their adult sons daughter, brothers sisters all using the company as a cash cow. Staff very unhelpful, no one willing to explain when asked questions which relate to their role just get vacant looks and expressions. The management still operate like its 1980, staff must know their place.

Advice to ManagementAdvice

Employ more younger professionals, to dilute the dated and insular culture.

Please ask some basic technical questions in their relative field of engineers at telephonic round interview or writing interview and If applicant will be selected as a employee,then after you will give full work freedom to the selected employee.You do not take one year or six months time to job confirmation of new employee because already he has been qualified at the time of interview.